I have to agree. Re-inventing the namespacing mechanism poorly seems
like an ill conceived notion.
Ben Adida wrote:
Ivan Herman wrote:
Ie, we may end up having to use data-typeof and data-about in future
for RDFa in HTML5?
It's good to see the HTML5 folks thinking about extensibility, but
this approach is a bit silly. For now, it's data-, but what next?
Surely accessibility- might make sense, and since the JavaScript
libraries already have their own attributes, they might end up using
jquery-, prototype-, etc.. Might we then see a claim that, because
there's no colon, this actually isn't a namespacing mechanism? It's
all starting to look very familiar....
If HTML5 is about formalizing existing uses, then they should allow
extraneous attributes to validate, end of story. What they do about
xml namespaces is debatable, but this introduction of data- is
entirely artificial and backed by no existing web uses.
-Ben
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